Dev Chat Highlights, July 6

Mention is made of having Synapse on to talk about something with the intials PP.
Paragon Ponies, Pretty Pretty Princess, and several other things are speculated.

First major tangent: Moulan Rouge and Zwill not knowing any of the songs except one. Which the title of it is apparently somewhat racy.

The White Board of Doom features a Bingo card, referencing a Steelclaw thread.

Synapse is here and we drift into a tangent about his hair. Or lack thereof. Speculation is that it is dyed clear.

Tunnel Rat wants to know how long Zwill has been singing the obscene French lyrics to the aforementioned song.

Zwill, and the new and Beastyle in chat sing "Getting to know you...."

POWERSET PROLIFERATION 3.0!

Blasters get Dark Blast and Manipulation, control is removed, Manipulation is heavy hitting support.

Controlers get poison, which is getting made over.

Defenders get Thermal and Fire Blast

Masterminds get Sonic Resonance

Scrappers get Waraxe and Mace and Energy Aura, which is also getting looked at. Taunt aura and a scaling +Rech bonus.

Tankers get Martial Arts and Super Reflexes.

Brutes get Katana, Broadsword and Regeneration.

Corruptors get Psychic Blast and Poison.

Stalkers are getting Ice Armor, which is changed a bit for the archtype.

Dominators get nothing! They lose! Good day sir!

But they will get stuff post Issue 21.


Blaster
Dark Manipulation is 3 melee attacks, Smite, Shadow Maul, and Midnight Grasp. Dark Pit got moved over from Defender's Dark Blast.

Dark Blast's damage is pretty average in ST and AoE, but has significant control and tohit debuff.

Defenders
Thermal. Buffing friends with fire! Zwill hates Heat Exhaustion in PvP.

Defenders can now melt face too, which is important.


Scrappers
Energy Aura for Scrappers is not a straight over port, it's getting a rework that is spreading to the other archtypes as well.

Synapse mentions the "Cabin Rule."

The heal in the AoE has been replaced with Def.

Conserve Power has been replaced with Energize, ala Electric Control.


Tankers
Zwill thinks SR sounds nasty.

Synapse says it is the most nastiest, easiest romp to the softcap.

Your big hulking tank can now crane kick.

SR gets a taunt aura in, he thinks, Evasion.


Brutes
Katana and Broadsword.

Katana will be awesome for building fury.

Regeneration will have the values kept as they are and will let Brutes tank, essentially.


Corruptor
Psychic Blast is the same as the Defender version.

Posion has had a quasi-revamp with improvements to the set. Current design in beta is that Poison has Venom and Weaken having small AoE effects with half the effect of original that is on the base target. The heal has been buffed. Poison Trap has intial hold instead of initial sleep, and has a Recovery debuff.

It works now.


Masterminds
Sonic Resonance, which Zwill never plays but hears all the time.

Serious buffing on pets, like Thermal, but with some evil debuffs and -res to boost pet damage.


Stalkers
Ice Armor, a pretty interesting set. They still get Chilling Embrace, and Hibernation has been gotten rid of due to the Patron pool. New power is called Icy Bastion and is similar to Moment of Glory, a short burst of survivability. +Regen, Recovery, and Resistance. Combines the set's solid defenses with resistance.


They’re not done, this is just part 3. Proliferation will never stop, as it's now proactive.


Tangent on Steelclaw's Ustream Bingo. (Check of Devs talking about Steelclaw and mentioning Bingo.)

Something comes up that they cannot talk about.

They'd like to see Dark on Dominators.

Switching it from Poison Trap to Posion Tarp would break the game. Zwill channels his inner Ackbar.

Super Strength has something they've looked at porting to the Scrapper and they want to do it.

Power Pool Customization is handled by art, Zwill wants to maybe get Tunnel Rat back on soon.

Bibliotecha! Check a box!

Chilling Embrace only affects enemies when you're out of Hide. It does not break it.

They want to do more Epic pools sets and there are plans for it sometime after post-21. Additional power pools, ala Medicine, Fighting, etc, not in Issue 21 but they hint at some improvements coming.

Positron's fear of clowns is brought up as is Epic Clown Summoning.

They want to do something with SG bases, they want to do it, but can't put a timeframe on it.

They are away of people wanting Electric mastery for Scrappers.

No demon summoning Control. Sadface.

Masterminds getting Kinetics? Eventually. They still have Cold Domination, Kinetics, and Radiation and some other stuff. Maybe Empathy. Zwill thinks that would be pretty cool.

Corruptors with Forcefield, eventually.

Poison Control for Dominators? Interesting, jotted down.

Titan Weapons animations look awesome, are frickin' huge. And like Sputnik. *accent* Spherical yet pointy at parts.

Zwill likes the mechanics of Titan Weapons, but does not like the hate mail he'll get for the taunting.

They wait in dread for Black Pebble coming around the corner, but Zwill has the Nerf Gun.

They CAN talk about Time Manipulation.

Tangent on Zwill's terrible Scottish accent.

Psi-based MM: Pedestrian Summoning! Lots of suggestions.

Craig Fergusson tangent.

Dancing in-game tangent.

Almost everything has proliferated. Blasters are 'done,' at least in the normal sense. Martial Arts for blasters is something they could do with existing animations.

Beastyle wants Katana Blast. "Summoning katanas out of the air and hurling them around."

Zwill wants Capoeira. But it would make the animators heads explode. The idle animation would be awesome. Also "Summon Drummer."

Table thumping. Check the box.

There is a whole lot powers wise, we only know about two. It's just the tip of the iceberg.

Tangent on using the TM character on various keyboards and operating systems.

Zwill is the worst beatboxer/"vocal percussionist" ever.

Synapse can't talk about if new powersets will have to be purchased or not. Not his department. Time Manipulation will be free for VIPs.

AE access can be accessed through the Paragon Rewards program at several levels. Synapse can't talk about the details. Free players can unlock it through the Vet tree.

Praetorian Epic AT's: Praets don't go to fifty just yet. Technically.

Synapse's favorite powerset: can't talk about it. His favorite one to play on Live is Regeneration. He has so many characters on Virtue. Invuln, Pain Dom, and Spines are also faves.

Zwill loves Katana and Regen. But has been focusing on Incarnate stuff on his Controller.

Time Manipulation has "Interesting Mechanics."

Beastyle: "Will we ever see whips from Demon Summoning used elsewhere?" They would love to, but there would need more whip animations done. Which are time consuming. Maybe in a Dominator Assault set.

Zwill wants Scrapper Indiana Jones. Maybe control or soft holds. Knockdowns and stuns.

Dual Whip right after quadruple blades and Dual Archery.

Low hanging fruit: Cold Domination and Kinetics. Both 'easy' to port over. Easy is a relative term. It's time consuming, but easier than making a new powerset.

Don't mention mo-cap to devs unless you want to see a lot of eye twitching.

Flying to Mars/Back to the Future tangent.

Doom-Criers fruit baskets: Soon (TM).

Synapse plays Dominator and Stalker a lot.

Zwill plays Mastermind. Ninja/Time will be deadly.

The line between Hero and Villain is thinning, as AT's can go to either side at any time. Except the Epics, at least in the beginning.

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

Nice! Thanks for posting this.

Good to see that Powerset Prolif is going back into active mode.

Thanks, as always, for putting this together for the Community VK .

i'm with zwill on capoeria as an alt anim for ma.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

it is a sound i have heard many times over the years. you dont even know what i want in my full list of ma alt animation demands. i feel i should have a white cat and a quippy mi6 agent nemesis.

in my full interpretation of rian frostdrake, he integrates capoeria, drunken style kung fu, muay thai, tang soo do, savate boxe francais and seven star praying mantis style kung fu, as well as hapkido, but there is no way in heck we are getting a grappling style.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Another mention of the secret new powerset that is not titan weapons.

Well, that's all good news. Picking and choosing from this list like from patch notes, I see powerset proliferation, power customization and more Titanic Weapons awesome. I'm officially no longer disgruntled.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Oh, and Zwillinger, Arcanaville's quote that you couldn't remember:

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Softcapping an Invuln is fantastic. Softcapping a Willpower is amazing. Softcapping SR is kissing your sister.

Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters

um... PEATs at 50? I thought the trend for EATs was going to be pre-50 level...

My question about Regen Brutes is, are they going to make Integration into a Taunt aura to allow for easier tanking? Presumably that's what is changing about EA, so I wouldnt be surprised, but if that's the case is it going to be a port of RttC or just the addition of an aura?

Also, whatever you do for Brutes, please don't add a taunt aura to regen Scrappers. I'm perfectly happy with Scrapper Regen as is and like shedding aggro like water off a duck's back when I need to.

Another potential Primary for MMs: Arachnos Spiders. Think about it...with VEATs all the animations are done. So three Summon Powers, two Pet Buffs, the other four could be two Arachnos Gun ST attacks (or one ST and one grenade AoE ) and two other Pet-centric Powers.